Ferris Bueller’s Cubs Game

Baseball is very much in the air in ITS. The “catch crew” is eager for the snow on the Quad to melt so we can get back to our occasional games of catch, and we’re eager for the first pitch to be thrown at Coca-Cola Park later this spring.

Naturally this leads to thoughts about one of the great mysteries of the 20th century, namely “What Cubs game did Ferris Bueller see on his famous day off?”

Thankfully we now know the answer (or rather, answers) to that question thanks to the Baseball Prospectus blog, which dug into the mystery based on the handful of clues given to us by the movie. Read the blog post.